Stowaway Do you love flying but hate the pre-flight and airport nonsense? With Stowaway, you can forget about all that and put yourself in a window seat right away. I tried it and put myself in the pilot’s seat, and there are numerous options for […]
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I’ve often sung the praises of Steam because of the many features it offers, but GOG goes one step further when it comes to offline play, DRM-free ownership, and classic game preservation. But one aspect of GOG I had never looked at is the offline
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Following on from my recent article How To Dumb Down Your Tech Devices, in which I somehow omitted to mention the privacy issue, the other day I came across a BBC article, Security by Antiquity, which explores why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers.
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First came smartphones, then smartwatches, then smart TVs, and now AI has taken over the ‘smart’ label, proving to be all-pervasive and invasive. I’ve noticed that many people are turning away from so-called smart devices (AI is another subject altogether), useful though many of them
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When I discovered that I could get YouTube Premium for around $3 per month, I snapped it up right away. At the time, I didn’t realise that YouTube Music was included in the deal, so I cancelled my subscription to Spotify and now enjoy all
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This is a follow-up to How To Manage Copyright Issues In YouTube, which reminded me that the copyright scene has spawned numerous copycat entities that act like ambulance chasers, scaring creators and website owners into parting with their hard-earned cash. My YouTube Channel Update At
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Over the years, YouTube (YT) has become a behemoth, but it is also messed with by Google in ways that are not always to our liking. Change The Huge Video Thumbnails One of the biggest complaints lately is about the huge video thumbnails, which force
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Recently I’ve been having trouble downloading more than half a dozen files from Google Photos, with the message ‘Preparing to download xx items…‘ remaining on the screen for ages. Eventually, a message pops up telling me that I’m trying to download too many items and
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I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2007, when it wasn’t the beast that it is now. Copyright and other content restrictions were fairly lax back then, but over the years Google has enforced its rules on copyright very aggressively. For that reason, if we
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Nvidia recently announced a product that could propel the company into the consumer CPU market – the RTX Spark – a supercomputer- grade processor that can run large AI models entirely locally. This is a 20-core ARM-based Nvidia Grace processor developed with MediaTek, featuring a
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Since moving to Argentina in 2005, I have both enjoyed and suffered six World Cups, and living in a country where soccer is practically a religion, it’s almost impossible to escape it. In the early years, I simply went along with the mass hysteria, but
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Physical discs for PC games disappeared well over a decade ago, but have persisted for console games for numerous reasons. First, for large installation reasons, it would take several hours to download a large digital game; second, the disc contains a license key; third, discs
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Following in the footsteps of the Australian government, the UK announced in June that under-16s are to be banned from social media, with restrictions said to take effect in Spring 2027. A week later, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, resigned as leader of his party.
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You may remember my June 3 article How GTA VI Is Impacting Upcoming Game Releases where I said that the game is set to be the biggest entertainment event of the decade, and I wasn’t wrong. Although Rockstar and Take-Two haven’t published any figures, reports
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